America and the Misshaping of a New World Order
Giles Gunn and Carl Gutierrez-Jones
Abstract
The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this book explores the role of culture and rhetoric in this process of geopolitical transformation. What difference do cultural concepts and values make to the cognitive and emotional weather of which, at various levels, ... More
The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this book explores the role of culture and rhetoric in this process of geopolitical transformation. What difference do cultural concepts and values make to the cognitive and emotional weather of which, at various levels, international politics is both consequence and perceived corrective? The scholars in this multidisciplinary book bring the tools of cultural analysis to the profound ongoing debate about how geopolitics is mapped and what determines its governance.
Keywords:
George W. Bush,
world order,
September 11,
geopolitics,
Middle East,
geopolitical transformation,
international politics,
cultural analysis,
governance,
misshaping
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520098701 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520098701.001.0001 |
